If it's final, it's final.

No pool is EVER perfect. $500,000 will not buy a perfect pool. I've seen them -- I know!

I even designed the equipment system on a luxury indoor pool built on mountain in North Carolina, and then had the architect change his mind on the HVAC system and eat up 3' feet of my equipment space. It turned a very carefully designed piping and equipment system with GREAT access, into a HORRIBLE system that embarrassed me every time I looked at it -- valve and control access was AWFUL. I don't know exactly what that pool cost, but it was well over $400,000 in 1995, for a 75' x 4' deep lap pool. The owner had three horribly ugly clay water pots on the deck, that I kept bumping into with my tools . . . till I found she'd paid over $85,000 for them! I loved swimming laps in it, though! I could watch the sun come up over Grandfather Mountain in the morning, when I swam the north-bound lap.

So have a beer, relax, and enjoy what you get. I've seen people with WONDERFUL pools, that have some little something that's not perfect, and so they don't enjoy what they do have. If you're getting a $50,000 pool . . . you will almost certainly will have a pool that 95% of Americans would love to have . . . if they could have a pool.

Many, many people here enjoy the heck out of $500 Intex pools!